Welcome to Grade 11 Enriched English at Newtonbrook Secondary School!
Visit this page often to view and download important course material and information. Course material is attached to the calendar below and corresponds with the date it was covered in class. Due dates are noted in red, special events are in blue and homework assignments that will be checked are in purple.
FEBRUARY 2014
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
31 First day of semester 2
3-2-1
Student Profiles
Distribute Tarragon trip forms
Brainstorm Expectations
If you didn't finish this in class, complete it for homework!
7
Discuss Jack Layton's "Final Letter to Canadians"
Read Naomi Klein's "Local Foreign Policy" (handout) and respond to the questions circled on the handout. If you didn't finish this in class, complete it for homework!
10 Photo Day Semester 1 Reports Out Discuss Naomi Klein's essay "Local Foreign Policy" Class brainstorm - what does it mean to be a good speaker? View and discuss the poem "If I Should Have a Daughter", performed by Sarah Kay (linked below) with partners and then as a class. Sarah Kay - "If I Should Have a Daughter"
11
Read and discuss Martin Luther King Jr's "I Had a Dream" speech
Library presentation on research skills and using reliable sources in your research
17 Family Day - No Class
18
Work period on Persuasive Speeches in the Library
19 Early Dismissal
Work period on Persuasive Speeches in the Library
20
Work period in the classroom on the following:
1) Rehearse your speech for a partner(s) and receive/provide feedback
2) Prepare for tomorrow's essay analysis test
21 Essay Analysis Test Work on your speech, read, or work for another class if you finish early.
24 Persuasive Speech Presentations
25 Early Dismissal Finish Persuasive Speech Presentations
26
Thomas More's Utopia - read excerpt (handout) and create a definition of utopia as a class.
Distribute "Dystopia Pre-Test". Complete this for homework if you haven't already because it will be discussed tomorrow!
28
Take-up "Utopia or Dystopia?!" creative writing exercise by sharing our work in small groups.
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (text as a handout) - read the story as a class and complete the questions individually. This will be taken up on Monday, so finish the questions for homework if you haven't done so in class.
Read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (text as a handout) and complete qusetions about this short story. Finish this for homework if you haven't finished it in class as it will be discussed tomorrow!
Distribute The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and begin reading. Read 1/2-3/4 of the novel over the break,and have the rest of it finished by Monday, March 24.
5
Start watching Children of Men. Make notes on the discussion questions distributed in class as we watch so you're prepared for our discussion tomorrow.
6 Interim Reports Out
Finish watching Children of Men and discuss the film at its conclusion.
7 PA Day - No Class
10 March Break - No Class
11 March Break - No Class
12 March Break - No Class
13 March Break - No Class
14 March Break - No Class
17
Introduce The Handmaid's Tale Group Seminars and begin working on them.
Work period - work on literature circle and/or read
14 Term 2 Begins
The Handmaid's Tale Literary Essay Due - hand in outline, rough draft, peer edit checklist, and rubric with your good copy!
Distribute Proof and read Act One as a class.
15
Read Proof Act Two as a class.
16 Tarragon Field Trip
17
Finish reading Proof as a class
Introduce Proof Movie Poster Assignment and begin working on a rough draft/ideas for it. You may also use this time to work on The Kite Runner (reading and/or literature circle prep)
Welcome to Grade 11 Enriched English at Newtonbrook Secondary School!
Visit this page often to view and download important course material and information. Course material is attached to the calendar below and corresponds with the date it was covered in class. Due dates are noted in red, special events are in blue and homework assignments that will be checked are in purple.
FEBRUARY 2014
First day of semester 2
3-2-1
Student Profiles
Distribute Tarragon trip forms
Brainstorm Expectations
Human Bingo
Class Contract
Letters - make sure you hand in your response at the start of class tomorrow!
Course Outlines - remember to bring your course outline signed by you and your parents tomorrow!
Methods of Development - board note
Classification of methods of development activity
Tarragon Trip Forms Due!
Take-up classification of methods of development activity from yesterday
Rhetorical devices - board note (definitions). Remember to complete the second examples activity for homework!
Take-up rhetorical devices second examples from yesterday
Introduce the rhetorical triangle (handout in the red bin)
Read and analyze Jack Layton's "Final Letter to Canadians"
(Letter is available in the red bin)
If you didn't finish this in class, complete it for homework!
Discuss Jack Layton's "Final Letter to Canadians"
Read Naomi Klein's "Local Foreign Policy" (handout) and respond to the questions circled on the handout. If you didn't finish this in class, complete it for homework!
Photo Day
Semester 1 Reports Out
Discuss Naomi Klein's essay "Local Foreign Policy"
Class brainstorm - what does it mean to be a good speaker?
View and discuss the poem "If I Should Have a Daughter", performed by Sarah Kay (linked below) with partners and then as a class.
Sarah Kay - "If I Should Have a Daughter"
Read and discuss Martin Luther King Jr's "I Had a Dream" speech
View Martin Luther King Jr's "I Had a Dream" speech and continue analysis
Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Had a Dream"
Tarragon Field Trip
Discuss Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" Speech
Announce Essay Analysis Test and discuss how to prepare for it
Introduce Persuasive Speeches and select topics
Coping with Communication Anxiety
Work on Persuasive Speeches in the Library
Library presentation on research skills and using reliable sources in your research
Family Day - No Class
Work period on Persuasive Speeches in the Library
Early Dismissal
Work period on Persuasive Speeches in the Library
Work period in the classroom on the following:
1) Rehearse your speech for a partner(s) and receive/provide feedback
2) Prepare for tomorrow's essay analysis test
Essay Analysis Test
Work on your speech, read, or work for another class if you finish early.
Persuasive Speech Presentations
Early Dismissal
Finish Persuasive Speech Presentations
Thomas More's Utopia - read excerpt (handout) and create a definition of utopia as a class.
Distribute "Dystopia Pre-Test". Complete this for homework if you haven't already because it will be discussed tomorrow!
Take-up "Dystopia Pre-Test" from yesterday.
Introduction to Dystopia as a genre with a discussion of its "Definitions and Characteristics".
"Utopia or Dystopia?!" creative writing exercise - complete for homework if you haven't finished it in class - it will be discussed tomorrow!
Take-up "Utopia or Dystopia?!" creative writing exercise by sharing our work in small groups.
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (text as a handout) - read the story as a class and complete the questions individually. This will be taken up on Monday, so finish the questions for homework if you haven't done so in class.
MARCH 2014
Take-up "Harrison Bergeron"
Read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson (text as a handout) and complete qusetions about this short story. Finish this for homework if you haven't finished it in class as it will be discussed tomorrow!
Early Dismissal
Take-up "The Lottery"
Distribute The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and begin reading. Read 1/2-3/4 of the novel over the break, and have the rest of it finished by Monday, March 24.
Start watching Children of Men. Make notes on the discussion questions distributed in class as we watch so you're prepared for our discussion tomorrow.
Interim Reports Out
Finish watching Children of Men and discuss the film at its conclusion.
PA Day - No Class
March Break - No Class
March Break - No Class
March Break - No Class
March Break - No Class
March Break - No Class
Introduce The Handmaid's Tale Group Seminars and begin working on them.
Think about your theme and hand in your group's theme and topic selection sheet by the end of class
Work Period - The Handmaid's Tale Group Seminar
Distribute Tarragon permission forms for next Wednesday's trip, and return, signed by your parents/guardians asap!
Work Period - The Handmaid's Tale Group Seminar
Work Period - The Handmaid's Tale Group Seminar
Late Start
Work Period - The Handmaid's Tale Group Seminar
Finish reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood before class today!
Work Period - The Handmaid's Tale Group Seminar
Early Dismissal
The Handmaid's Tale Group Seminars Begin - All groups must be ready to present!
Tarragon Field Trip
OSSLT - No Class
The Handmaid's Tale group seminars conclude
Finish Handmaid Seminars
Introduce Literary Essay for The Handmaid's Tale and work on outlines
APRIL 2014
Tarragon field trip forms distributed - bring $12 and your signed permission form back ASAP!
Work period - essay outline
Work period - essay outline
Seminar rubrics returned, and updated marks distributed
Parent-Teacher Interviews
Period C and D classes in the morning
MLA Format Review - handout (your new best friend!)
Distribute The Kite Runner
Work time - you may finish working on your essay outline (due tomorrow!) or begin reading The Kite Runner
Essay Outline Due!
Tarragon Field Trip Forms and $12 Due!
Late Start
Read The Kite Runner
Return Essay Outlines
Work on rough draft of Literary Essay in the computer lab
Work on rough draft of Literary Essay in the computer lab
Rough draft of literary essay due at the start of class!
Peer edit of rough draft of literary essay.
Make sure you bring an electronic copy of your essay rough draft to class tomorrow so you can work on your good copy!
Hand in peer edit checklist at the end of class
Early Dismissal
Return peer edit checklists
Work on good copy of the literary essay in the computer lab.
Introduce The Kite Runner Literature Circles
Work period - work on literature circle and/or read
Term 2 Begins
The Handmaid's Tale Literary Essay Due - hand in outline, rough draft, peer edit checklist, and rubric with your good copy!
Distribute Proof and read Act One as a class.
Read Proof Act Two as a class.
Tarragon Field Trip
Finish reading Proof as a class
Introduce Proof Movie Poster Assignment and begin working on a rough draft/ideas for it. You may also use this time to work on The Kite Runner (reading and/or literature circle prep)
Good Friday - no class
Easter Monday - no class
Finish reading The Kite Runner before class today!
The Kite Runner Literature Circle #1
Return Handmaid essays
Distribute Tarragon forms - return, signed by your parent/guardian, asap!
Class discussion about The Kite Runner and current events
Work for half the period in the computer lab on the Proof Movie Poster Assignment.
The Kite Runner Literature Circle #1 Summaries Due!
Mid-Term Reports Distributed in Period A
Work in the computer lab on the Proof Movie Poster Assignment. This is your last work period, and the poster and reflection are due on Monday!
The Kite Runner Literature Circle #2
Proof Movie Poster and Reflection Due!
The Kite Runner Literature Circle #2 Summaries Due!
Introduce Kite Runner movie comparison assignment
Introduce Kite Runner Literary Essay
Early Dismissal
Distribute Kite Runner Essay Outline
Begin watching The Kite Runner and making notes for your comparison assignment
Tarragon Field Trip
MAY 2014
Continue watching The Kite Runner and making notes for your comparison assignment
The Kite Runner Literature Circle #3
Continue watching The Kite Runner and making notes for your comparison assignments.
The Kite Runner Literature Circle #3 Summaries Due!
Finish watching The Kite Runner
Work period - begin working on your Kite Runner novel and film comparison, or work on your essay outline.
Return Proof posters
Work period in the computer lab - Kite Runner essay outline and/or movie and film comparison
Introduce the plot of Hamlet
Introduce the characters of Hamlet
Distribute the text for Hamlet
Early Dismissal
Work on Kite Runner Literary Essay Outline
Kite Runner Literary Essay Outline Due!
Begin reading Hamlet Act I
Kite Runner Movie Comparison Assignment Due!
Return Kite Runner Essay Outlines
Work on Kite Runner essay rough draft in the computer lab
The Kite Runner
Literature Circle #4
Read Act I Scene iv of Hamlet
Read Act I Scene v and Act II Scenes i and ii of Hamlet
Assign roles for Hamlet Act III
Kite Runner Literary Essay Rough Draft due
The Kite Runner Literature Circle #4 Summaries Due!
Prom
Peer edit of Kite Runner Literary Essay
Make sure you hand in your peer editing checklist by the end of class!
Read Act III Scene i of Hamlet
Read Act III Scenes ii, iii and iv of Hamlet
Introduce Hamlet Dramatic Monologue Assignment and begin working on it
Victoria Day - no class
Kite Runner Literary Essay Due!
Read Hamlet Act IV
Return Kite Runner Film and Novel Comparison Assignments
Read Act V of Hamlet
Work on Hamlet Monologue
Work Period - Hamlet Monologue
Dismissal at 12:15
Review Hamlet Monologue Assignment Expectations and work period on this assignment
Late Start
Introduce Culminating Activity
Sign up for topics for Culminating Activity and work on this in your groups
Return Kite Runner Literature Circle Summaries
Early Dismissal
Scarlet and Grey Day - Special Schedule
Work Period - Culminating Activity and Hamlet Monologue
Sign-up for Hamlet monologue presentations
Work Period - Culminating Activity and Hamlet Monologue
Niagara Falls Field Trip Forms distributed - return, signed by your parent/guardian, with $20 by Monday, June 2 if you want to go on this trip.
Hamlet Dramatic Monologue Presentations Begin and Worksheets/hard copy of Monologues due!
Arts Night
Hamlet Dramatic Monologue Presentations Conclude!
JUNE 2014
Niagara Falls Field Trip Forms Due with $20!
Culminating Activity Thematic Analysis Chart Due
Group sharing of thematic analysis chart and work on culminating presentations in your groups
Return Kite Runner Essays
Athletic Banquet
Work on culminating presentations in your groups
Work on culminating presentations in your groups
Trip to Niagara Falls
Work on culminating presentations in your groups
Moratorium
Work on culminating presentations in your groups
Culminating Presentations Begin
Moratorium
Culminating Presentations Conclude
Moratorium
Work on Culminating Essays and Reflections in the Computer Lab (2nd half of class)
Moratorium
Work on Culminating Essays and Reflections in the Computer Lab
Culminating Activity Essay and Reflections due at the end of class, along with Thematic Analysis Charts and Rubrics
In-Class Exams during Period B
Distribute exam review package and begin review of course themes
In-Class Exams during Period A
Finish group review of course themes and share
In-Class Exams during Period D
Return Culminating Activities and Updated Marks
In-Class Exams during Period C
ENG 3U3 Exam - 9:00-11:00am in the Caf
Exams
Exams
Exams
Exams
Exams
Exam Review Day - 1/2 day schedule
PA Day - No School
PA Day - No School
Summer Vacation!